you are right. Who the heck cares who wins? I think she did better on her second dance than any other dance that night anyway.

I thought that Kelly's obviously flawed final dance shouldn't have received a perfect score from all three judges and that John should have won for his series-long superior skills and style. I think the judges may have been told that Kelly was unbeatable due to her high soap-fan-voter totals and so they judged her perfect to create drama, knowing it didn't matter to the results. She also probably got credit for being most improved while John was considered someone who was good all along and therefore his final performances weren't as special. However, the fact that some people are still upset over it to the point of bombarding ABC with complaints is silly. It's a reality show about less-than-B-list people dancing. Why haven't these fans moved on to BB or even the consecutive re-airings of TAR on the Game Show Network?!!

I watched the last few episodes and it was OBVIOUS that the fix was in for beady-eyed kelly monaco. she practically FELL 3 times in her dance so for the judges to give her 3 10s when there had never been ONE 10 in the entire series was ludicrous. The ABC / General Hospital connection reeks!

not that I care. . . . just saying.

And to anyone who cares: I just found out last night that OLN is rerunning the first season of Survivor.

Well, that, and I just saved a lot on my car insurance...

ha!

The only reason all of these people are bent that Kelly and Alex won is because all any of the judges and commentators kept saying over and over and over and over again was that John & Charlotte would be the couple to beat .. and that is exactly what was done. Kelly is on a soap and prolly has a strong and loyal fan following who voted for her. As for him, it's sour grapes. He prolly believed the judges when they said, ad nauseum 'you are the couple to beat' which was translated into 'you've already won this' by him and when that didn't really happen, he snapped. Deal with it. She won a trophy that looked like it was from the movie Saturday Night Fever.

BOO HOO.....someone had to win,someone had to lose.....GET OVER IT.Maybe if he hadn't made those horrible I can only describe as "I'm costipated" looks so often while dancing,he'd have won.

I propose that BB6 reverse all known protocols and decide in the end to just let Chenbot decide. She can choose anyone who appeared all season.

Next, let's have Randy choose the next AI, since his vote should have more "weight" than non-pounders.

Then we get to have Jeff choose the Survivor winner.

Rules exist, or they don't. Letting Monaco win was precisely like having someone win an immunity/veto by being the slowest runner on the obsatacle course just because a judge liked her style better.

No reality show can stand such betrayal and shouldn't.

It matters.

I get what you're saying, Ed, and I think you make a good point. I think in any situation where there's judges (and judges who give official scores, not like Randy/Paula/Simon), there's a possibility of complaints with the outcome.

But I doubt this kind of thing will carry over to other shows--it seems like the producers realize that they need to change things.

DWTS has announced that next time it will have a second night of a results show so that the public voting and judge's scores and for the same dance, instead of using public voting from the previous week's dance and the judge's scores from that night's dance. I guess they never figured this show would be a summer smash hit at the level it was, so they didn't plan for a second American Idol-like results night each week. They may have assumed that one night of a dancing show per week was a long shot, and now they actually have a public demand for two nights!